Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Henri J. Nouwen

If we only saw the whole, we should see that the Father is doing little else in the world but training his vines.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne

My chronological age is of no importance to me whatsoever. I am a child of God, therefore I am eternally new. I am as young as time, I am as old as eternity. I have no age. I am as spontaneous as this moment. I live in the here and the now. I live each moment as it appears so I am always as young as the present. I cannot age because I am constantly in depth, not in time. No one has ever lived this life before. I do my best to make it a masterpiece. I am a child of the Infinite. I am eternally new.

Donald C. Curtis

Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it is rained down from Heaven, at our very doors.

Tryon Edwards

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.
A. W. Tozer

God has a bigger plan for me, than I have for myself.
Unknown

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

C. H. Spurgeon

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Thank God- every morning when you get up- that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Never be afraid of giving up your best, and God will give you His better.

James Hinton

In the name of Jesus Christ who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all eternity before us, make us take time to live- time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessing, and time to know each other.
Peter Marshall

The effective Christians of history have been men and women of great personal discipline- mental discipline, discipline of the body, discipline of the tongue, and discipline of the emotion.
Billy Graham

If you want to be a teacher, remember that you’re just as likely to teach who you are as you are to teach what you know.
Marie T. Freeman

War with your Vices,
at Peace with your Neighbours,
and let New Year find you a better Man.
Benjamin Franklin

When I was a little boy on the sun-bathed prairies of southern Illinois, a year seemed interminable- it moved forward on leaden feet. Now the years pass like the flash of sunlit bubbles on wind-tossed waves, as though they must hasten and lose themselves in that eternity when time shall be no more. And yet what an unspeakable gift of God is a year! Who can compute its value or estimate its worth? We give and receive our little gifts and rejoice, but how paltry they are compared to God’s gift of a year of days!
Samuel Logan Brengle

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
G. K. Chesterton

Still upward be thine onward course;
For this I pray today;
Still upward as the years go by
And seasons pass away.
Still upward in this coming year,
Thy path is all untried
Still upward may’st thou journey on,
Close by Thy Savior’s side.
Unknown

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles- safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings

Understand that your words weigh 1,000 pounds. Choose them carefully!
Unknown

Go an entire day without saying one negative comment about anything or anyone! To really test your resolve, pick a day when you’re going to be talking to a lot of people- at a party, for example.
Bret Nicholaus

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
Mother Teresa

I say, if everybody in this house lives where it is God first, friends and family second and you third, we won’t ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.

John Paul II

Heroes are not the ones that never fail, but the ones who never give up.

Unknown

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Phillips Brooks

Our problem is that we come to a point in our Christian life where we become comfortable and we stop surrendering all things to Christ. Surrender means that I have given God permission to change, mold or to rid my life of anything that hinders me from becoming all that He wants me to be. We need to surrender to God and allow Him to change us.
Jeff Simms

God sends rain and fruitful seasons, but though they come, they never come in the same way in any one year, and I find that, as a rule, when I need anything, that it comes from a quarter that I never expected, and that from the quarter where it had come before it does not now. Thus God keeps the eye on Himself and not on the donor.
J. B. Stoney

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no avoiding, and no substitute for, the somtimes long, arduous experience of discovering the will of God in our own lives.

Sinclair Ferguson

It is later than it has ever been before, and the smartest thing any man can do is to set his watch by God’s clock.
Vance Havner

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Christian Bovee

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know someting of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.
Frederick Buechner

Find out what your temptations are and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts.
Fulton J. Sheen

God isn’t a talent scout looking for someone who is “good enough” or “strong enough.” He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
Vance Havner

Late have I loved You, Beauty so old and so new: late have I loved You. And see, You were within and I was in the external world and sought You there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which You made. You were with me, and I was not with You. The lovely things kept me far from You, though if they did not have their existence in You, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, You put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after You. I tasted You, and I feel but hunger and thirst for You. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is Yours. For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Augustine

I am filled with shame and confusion, when I reflect on the one hand upon the great favors which God has done, and incessantly continues to do; and on the other, upon the ill use I have made of them, and my small advancement in the way of perfection.
Brother Lawrence

God is impressed, not with noise or size or wealth, but with quiet things…things done in secret- the inner motives, the true heart condition.
Charles Swindoll

Time to think: it is the source of power.

Time to play: it is the secret of perpetual youth.

Time to read: it is the fountain of wisdom.

Time to pray: it is the greatest power on earth.

Time to laugh: it is the music of the soul.

Time to give: it is too short a day to be selfish.

Unknown

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn…That is why it is no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

The will of God is the measure of things.

Unknown

The key step between the Bible and life is apply. That’s where the truths of scripture begin to move beyond statements of fact or principles…Biblical application means allowing the truth of scripture to penetrate our lives, to make a difference in how we live.
Dave Veerman

The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to yourself, respect;
to all men, charity.
John Balfour

The destined end of a man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God’s one aim is the production of saints.
Oswald Chambers

Our gracious heavenly Father entrusts us to confess our mess. And to show us that it’s okay to let down our pretenses, His Word is full of stories about unlikely people becoming heroes- a stuttering ex-con who leads God’s people out of slavery; an unethical little “IRS agent” who becomes a friend of Jesus; a sleazy woman whose testimony triggers a revival in her hometown. If you’re embarrassed by your past, you’re in good company!
Lisa Harper

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubts, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal- and soon they’ll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong

If your inner voice is telling you that you can’t paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh

Not what we give but that we share,
For the gift without the giver is bare.
James Russell Lowell

God leaves us here because He has a mission for us to fulfill. We aren’t here by accident; neither are we here simply to enjoy the good things life has to offer. We are here because God put us here, and He has a sovereign purpose in keeping us here. It’s true for us as individuals, and it’s true for His body, the Church, in all of its fullness. As Jesus prayed just before His arrest and trial, “I am not praying that You take them out of the world…As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” (John 17:15,18)
Billy Graham

Anyone who serves God will discover sooner or later that the great hindrance to his work is not others but himself.
Watchman Nee

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak!
Francios Fenelon

Only God knows how many Handel’s Messiahs could have been written, but were not.
Charles E. Blair

At a church dinner, there was a pile of apples on one end of a table with a sign that read, “Take Only One Apple, Please.  God Is Watching.”  On the other end of the table was a pile of cookies where a youth had placed a sign saying, “Take All The Cookies You Want.  God Is Watching The Apples.”
Unknown

This is my “depressed stance.”  When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand.  The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better.  If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.
Charlie Brown

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide

How can you possess the miseries of envy when you possess in Christ the best of all portions?
C. H. Spurgeon

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Francis de Sales

Treasure this day,
and treasure yourself.
Truly, neither will ever
happen again.
Ray Bradbury

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn’t do at all.
Morris Mandel

God is more interested in the workman than in the work.
Warren Wiersbe

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
H. W. Beecher

Being a Christian means accepting the terms of creation, accepting God as our maker  and redeemer, and growing day by day into an increasingly glorious creature in Christ, developing joy, experiencing love, maturing in peace.
Eugene Peterson

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
Oswald Chambers

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and
fine linen.
Charles Dickens

The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster

You aren’t an accident.  You weren’t mass-produced.  You aren’t an assembly-line product.  You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.
Max Lucado

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace.  If he has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
Oswald Chambers

My new word: “Blesson.”  It’s when you’re able to view painful lessons as blessings.  A blesson is what happens when you see the blessing in the lesson that your challenge taught you.
Karen Salmansohn

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little, and are content with little.
A. W. Pink

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Michel de Montaigne

The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside.  And just so does our God to us.
Hannah Whitall Smith

He converses and delights Himself with me incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favourite.
Brother Lawrence

If you are a saint, God will continually upset your program, and if you are wedded to your program, you will become that most obnoxious creature under heaven- an irritable saint.
Oswald Chambers

I have a point of view.  You have a point of view.  God has view.
Madeleine L’Engle

An old man lived with his son in a fort.  One day the son lost his horse.  The neighbors rushed into the house to express their sympathy, but the old man said: “How do you know that this is bad luck?”  A few days later, the horse came back with a number of wild horses.  So the neighbors flocked indoors to congratulate him, but the old man said: “How do you know this is good luck?”  Now that he had so many horses to ride, the son one day rode away on one of the wild horses.  He fell off, breaking his leg.  Again the neighbors knocked at the door to say: “Alas!  Alas!” but the old man said: “Tut!  Tut!  How do you know this is bad luck?”  Sure enough, before many weeks had passed, there was a great war in the Middle Flowery Kingdom, but because the old man’s son was crippled, he did not have to go off to fight.
Chinese story

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
Martin Luther

The brook would lose its song if the rocks were removed.
Unknown

There was a tedious four-day trial at which a defendant stoutly maintained his innocence.  On the fourth day he suddenly decided to plead guilty.  The judge angrily inquired, “Why didn’t you plead guilty right at the start and save us all this time, trouble, and cost?”  “Honest, Judge,” whined the defendant, “I was convinced I was innocent until I heard all the evidence against me.”
Unknown

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
Unknown

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
Rick Warren

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith.  We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D. A. Carson

Let Jesus be in your heart, eternity in your spirit, the world under your feet, the will of God in your actions.  And let the love of God shine forth from you.
Catherine of Genoa

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post

He who counts the stars and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children.  He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made, or the only saint He ever loved.
C. H. Spurgeon

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Laughter removes all barriers.  When people are laughing together, there are no age differences, no racial barriers, and no economic distinctions.  It is just people enjoying their existence.
Bruce Bickel and Stand Jantz

Horizontal relationships- relationships between people- are crippled at the outset unless the vertical relationship- the relationship between each person and God- is in place.
Ed Young

We have not been created for the purpose of finding our ultimate satisfaction in a job.  There is no spouse whom we were ever meant to take as the ultimate concern in our life.  We have been made for the purpose of knowing God.
Mark Dever

Genuine, hearty laughter is one of the greatest gifts imparted to us by our Father. It has the amazing power to diminish our pain, lifting our souls in joyous good cheer, while providing bright hope for the unknown days ahead.
W. Phillip Keller

One of the best-kept secrets in Christianity is that God accepts us.  True, He can’t stand our sinful acts, but He loves us.  He doesn’t have us on performance-based acceptance; He has us on Jesus-based acceptance.
Billy Gillham

The Christian has to live in the world, but he must draw all his resources from outside of the world.
Donald Barnhouse

Out of the will of God there is no such thing as success; in the will of God there is no such thing as failure.
David Amstutz

To be sensible of our corruption and abhor our own transgressions is the first symptom of spiritual health.
J. C. Ryle

Contentment comes when we remember that what God chooses is far better than what we choose.
Unknown

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but letting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.
Paul Little

Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will.
Unknown

God has an exasperating habit of laying his hands on the wrong man.
Joseph Blinco

A novice monk asked a seasoned old veteran of the abbey, “After you entered the monastery, did you still struggle with the devil?” “No.” Answered the older monk. “I struggled with God.” “With God?” Exclaimed his neophyte friend, “How could you hope to win?” The older monk softly replied, “When I struggle with God, I hope to lose.”
Unknown

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
Augustine

If God seems far away- guess who moved.
L. James Harvey

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton

God does not have to go through me to reach the people He wants to help, but I am lucky if I make it easy for Him to do so.
Ben Stein

If you are holding something back from God, then God is holding something back from you.
John Blanchard

Where God guides he provides. He is responsible for our upkeep if we follow his directions. He is not responsible for expenses not on his schedule.
Vance Havner

What then is the difference between the good man and the bad? Only this: They both suffer, they both have pain, they both know tension and trouble, but there is a difference in what they suffer for, in what they have trouble from, in what takes away their peace of mind. The measure of a man is that which bothers him, that which disturbs his mind, that which annoys him and costs him pain.
Jack Riemer

My relationship with God is the only relationship that counts, and if it’s right, all other relationships in my life will be right, no matter how they turn out.
Ben Stein

Duty and today are ours; results and the future belong to God.
Unknown

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.
Augustine

When one life is changed, the world is changed.
Thomas Johns

A small decision now can change all your tomorrows.
Robert Schuller

A Christian is the world’s Bible- and some of them need revising.
D. L. Moody

If you wish to possess finally all that is yours, give yourself entirely to God.
Hadewijch of Antwerp

You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources; you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources.
Unknown

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann

We are not our own, any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves; we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We cannot be our own masters. We are God’s property by creation, by redemption, by regeneration.
John Henry Newman

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
C. H. Spurgeon

I was still trying to be in control, but the only thing I was really in control of was my own misery. What God wanted from me was a deeper surrender, a full and unconditional reliance on his loving will for me.
Unknown

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
C. S. Lewis

However holy or Christlike a Christian may become, he is still in the condition of “being changed.”
John Stott

A dear old Quaker lady was asked to explain her obviously youthful appearance, her appealing vivacity, and her winning charm. She replied sweetly, “I used for the lips- truth, for the voice- prayer, for the eyes- pity, for the hands- charity, for the figure- uprightness, for the heart- love.” How’s that for a make-up-kit?
Abraham Besdin

I am born happy every morning.
Unknown

I am always content with what happens, for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
Epictetus

You have become a mature person when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.
Unknown

God has no problems, only plans.
Corrie ten Boom

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE.
William Booth

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them- every day begin the tasks anew.
Francis De Sales

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes softly and sits on your shoulder.
Unknown

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God’s victory over him.
A. W. Tozer

God is waiting for us to come to Him with our needs…God’s throne room is always open…Every single believer in the whole world could walk into the throne room all at one time, and it would not even be crowded.
Charles Stanley

God didn’t want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.
Bruce Wilkinson

In the world to come I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?” I shall be asked, “Why were you not Zusya?”
Rabbi Zusya

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
C. S. Lewis

To have a God who is almighty, all wise, all good and merciful to go to as your constant friend, as your continual benefactor, as your safeguard and guide, it should- it must- sweeten every bitter drought of life.
Elias Boudinot

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Charles Kingsley

Some of the roads most used lead nowhere.
Jewish proverb

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
King Stanislas I

If you are in the wrong place, the right place is empty.
Unknown

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
G. K. Chesterton

Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience.
Charles F. Banning

If God is here for us and not elsewhere, then in fact this place is holy and this moment is sacred.
Isabel Anders

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer

It’s not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it’s not the Christian in the world but the world in the Christian that constitutes the danger.
John Wilbur Chapman

In God’s world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Frederick W. Robertson

God will only mend a broken heart when He is given all the pieces.
Unknown

Lord, if I dig a pit for others
Let me fall into it;
But if I dig it for myself,
Give me sense enough to walk around it.
Sherwood Wirt

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become- because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…It is when I turn to Christ, then I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
C. S. Lewis

The promises of God are certain, but they do not all mature in 90 days.
Adoniram Gordon

Religion should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire.
Charles L. Wheeler

God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule.
A. W. Tozer

One should gather a little nosegay of devotion. My meaning is as follows: Those who have been walking in a beautiful garden do not leave it willingly without taking away with them four or five flowers, in order to inhale their perfume and carry them about during the day: even so, when we have considered some mystery in meditation, we should choose one or two or three points in which we have found most relish, and which are specially proper to our advancement, in order to remember them throughout the day, and to inhale their perfume spiritually. Now we should do this in the place where we have made our meditation, either staying where we are, or walking about alone for a little while afterwards.
Francis de Sales

Even if you’ve missed God’s plan entirely for years and years and years, that plan can still swing into operation the minute you’re ready to step up and step in, with God at your side.
Tony Evans

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
Augustine of Hippo

(Written about AD 130, this is one of the earliest descriptions of Christians.)
They dwell in their own countries but simply as sojourners. As citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers. They marry, as do others; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring. They have a common table but not a common bed. They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They pass their days on the earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws in their lives. They love all, and are persecuted by all. They are poor, yet they make many rich; they are completely destitute, and yet they enjoy complete abundance. They are reviled, and yet they bless. When they do good they are punished as evildoers; undergoing punishment, they rejoice because they are brought to life.
Epistle to Diognetus, author unknown

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
Dwight L. Moody

God expects us to grow spiritually. The end result is His responsibility. Our job is to cooperate with the process.
Rory Noland

A traveler, as he passed through a forest, saw a part of a huge oak, which appeared misshapen, and almost seemed to spoil the scenery. “If,” sad he, “I was the owner of this forest, I would cut down that tree.” But when he had ascended the hill, and taken a full view of the forest, this same tree appeared the most beautiful part of the landscape. “How erroneously,” said he, “I judged when I saw only a part!” The full view, the harmony and proportion of things, are all necessary to clear up our judgment.
Unknown

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
Thomas a Kempis

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look “little” or “big.”
Elisabeth Elliot

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and dreams of home.
Carl Burns

People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.
Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Our future is not about what we have or don’t have, or about what might happen or what might not happen. Our future is all about Who we know and how well we know Him.
Cindi McMenamin

Failure is often God’s own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of His children; and even in this life, bitter and crushing failures have often in them the germs of new and quite unimagined happiness.
Thomas Hodgkin

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
Hannah More

Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path. Ask the scientist if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that his formulas and equations are fixed, and that to ignore the laws of science would be a fool’s folly. If the laws in the material realm are so fixed and exact, is it reasonable that God could afford to be haphazard in the spiritual realm where eternal destinies of souls are at stake? Just as God has equations and rules in the material realm, God has equations and rules in the spiritual.
Billy Graham

I once visited a weaver’s school where the students were making beautiful patterns. I asked, “When you make a mistake must you cut it out and start from the beginning?” A student said, “No, our teacher is such a great artist that when we make a mistake, he uses it to improve the beauty of the pattern.” That is what the Lord does with our mistakes.
Corrie ten Boom

Isn’t it strange how a 20 dollar bill seems like such a large amount when you donate it to church, but such a small amount when you go shopping?
Isn’t it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you’re at church, and how short they seem when you’re watching a good movie?
Isn’t it strange that you can’t find a word to say when you’re praying but you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?
Isn’t it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bible but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel?
Isn’t it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in Church?
Isn’t it strange how we need to know about an event for Church 2-3 weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust it for other events in the last minute?
Isn’t it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others; but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?
Isn’t it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say but we question the words in the Bible?
Isn’t it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven but they don’t want to believe, do, or say anything to get there?
Isn’t it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are forwarded right away but when we are going to send messages about God, we think about it twice before we share it with others?
Unknown

In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
Joaquin Miller

You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren’t aware of it.
Kay Arthur

Christians are not called to win battles, but to find ways of being in battles.
David Jenkins

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.
Charles H. Spurgeon

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
Thomas Henry Huxley

There is no safer place for your hopes and dreams than in the loving hands of your faithful Father.
Leslie Ludy

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
Henry Ward Beecher

Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, thy glory in my valley.
Arthur Bennett

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.
Tryon Edwards

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin

Have your heart right with Christ, and He will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples and earth into heaven.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible; Difficult; Done.
Hudson Taylor

The Christian who is truly spiritual revels as much in his ignorance of God as in his knowledge of him.
John Blanchard

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William Barclay

Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All Godís giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence being with them.
James Hudson Taylor

Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.
Hannah Whitall Smith

Fulfillment doesn’t automatically happen as a result of linking up with the “right” person, job, or even ministry. Fulfillment happens as a result of being in God’s will.
Marilyn Olson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God’s handwriting.
Charles Kingsley

Basis for happiness: something to do; something to love; something to look forward to.
Kanawha Reporter

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Spurgeon

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G. K. Chesterton

The truly happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery even when he must take a detour.
Unknown

You can’t tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
Will Rogers

I neglect God and his angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne

You are one of a kind, designed to glorify God as only you can.
Unknown

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers

God cares about details. If you comb out some hairs in the morning, the record in Heaven is changed.
John Rice

God doesn’t call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies them.
Richard Parker

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French proverb

God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.
Unknown

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Phillips Brooks

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
Russell Banks

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden

I have more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other man I ever met.
D. L. Moody

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
Augustine